2012 年 16 巻 p. 37-48
This study attempts to review the meaning and methods of experiencing another culture's arts by viewing the learning of music in relation to its cultural aspects (climate, everyday life, history). First, the meaning of experiencing other cultural arts has been clarified based on J. Dewey's Art Experience Theory. Next, a music class at a junior high school in Japan on the Korean folk play, Ganggangsulrae, planned and conducted by the researcher, has been analyzed. Students understood that Ganggangsulrae is closely related to the life of people living in the region and that it expresses those peoples' emotions. If we have what J. Dewey says "the attitudes basic in other forms of experience", the narrow-minded accommodations of other cultures will be a thing of the past. Additionally, having an attitude and awareness of comparing arts of one's own culture with that of other cultures will serve to re-discover one's own culture and thus broaden and deepen personal experiences.